[geeks] news servers.

[Bill Bradford]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 08:26:18AM -0400, Tim Harrison wrote:
> Good morning, folks.
> Is anyone out there running their own news server?  What kind of disk
> space is in use to carry everything?  What kind of bandwidth
> requirements?  What software are you using?
> We currently outsource our news service (an A record to someone else's
> news server), and we have to decide within the next week if we want to
> keep it that way, or bring it inhouse.
> Any and all info is appreciated.

If you're happy with outsourcing it, dont bother with the 
hassle of running your own.

Bandwidth requirements depend on what kind of feed you're taking.
A full binaries feed almost requires a dedicated T3 nowdays.

Bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX